{"id":8072,"date":"2009-08-10T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2009-08-10T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:54:27","slug":"tehran-prof-denies-being-mouth-of-sauron-fareed-zakaria-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/tehran-prof-denies-being-mouth-of-sauron-fareed-zakaria-disagrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran Prof Denies Being ‘Mouth of Sauron,’ Fareed Zakaria Disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN is slipping word battles onto the airwaves while we aren’t looking. If not for @slantsmcgee<\/a> the Fareed Zakaria vs Iranian Regime Spokesman Mohammed Marandi showdown would have been missed. Some say<\/a> time stamp 4:20 the moment Zakaria loses his shit by calling the Tehran professor “a mouthpiece of a dying regime.” We say he came out swinging and never stopped<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The line that caught our ears is towards the interview’s end. The prof let snark that he is not the “mouth of Sauron<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

We listened twice to be sure.<\/p>\n

First, professor, that’s exactly the kind of thing The MOS would say.<\/p>\n

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Second, politics taking grand steps into geek culture is getting a bit weird. Soon all future political debates will transpire around a small table littered with Dungeon Master<\/a> guides, mountains of empty cola cans, and enough Cheetos to put Chester into a pleasure coma for weeks. Humanity’s future will be decided in dank, dark basements<\/a> of the world’s Halls of Power while Cody’s mom bakes up a batch of her famous preacher cookies.<\/p>\n

@slantsmcgee <\/a>could not help but to make a mock-up of how this world would look.<\/p>\n

\"sauron<\/a> <\/div>\n

(via The Daily Dish<\/a>, @slantsmcgee<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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